Potential is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for POTENTIAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• powers or resources not yet developed or made use of
• latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness
• the possibility of something happening or of someone doing something in the future
• the quantity determining the energy of mass in a gravitational field or of charge in an electric field
• Anything that may be possible; a possibility; potentially.
• In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with respect to the coordinates are equal to the components of the force at the point considered; -- also called potential function, or force function. It is called also Newtonian potential when the force is directed to a fixed center and is inversely as the square of the distance from the center.
• The energy of an electrical charge measured by its power to do work; hence, the degree of electrification as referred to some standard, as that of the earth; electro-motive force.
• the inherent capacity for coming into being
• the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts
• ability or talent not yet fully used
ADJECTIVE:
• latent, possible or likely
• having or showing the capacity to develop into something in the future
• possible but not yet actual
• Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
• Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
• expected to become or be; in prospect
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• existing in possibility; capable of development into actuality

Words related to POTENTIAL

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Words that contain POTENTIAL

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How to use POTENTIAL in a sentence

• Nor does this leave the future unclouded with potential trouble, for, in this war, the black man has seen the white, on both sides, run from him.
• Englishmen who seek to do their duty by India have potential allies in the educated classes, who have grafted Western learning on a civilisation much more ancient than their own.
• A sound will be heard, except when the two telephone terminals touch the water at points where the potential is the same.
• Jealousy may exist apart from sexual love, but there can be no such love without jealousy, potential at any rate, for in the absence of provocation it need never manifest itself.
• In the best incandescent electric lighting plants but one-fifth of one per cent, of the potential value of the coal is converted into light.
• Once it has attracted the attention and reached the hands of a potential reader, it will be glanced through even if it is not read in detail.
• One remained, indeed, gravely suspended between the doubt and the fear, as to which of these potential units had the greater pull, in point of actual attraction.
• The merchants were ignored as potential officials although they had often enough held official appointments under the former dynasty.
• Considerable potential exists for development of a tourist industry, and the government has taken steps to expand facilities in recent years.
• When the strips were allowed to lie closely together, the short conductor showed an enormous self-induction, which cut down the effective potential at its ends near the work.
• But to develop potential in the wire the lines must cut the wire.
• Study this potential device until you have absorbed and assimilated it.
• On its flanks are ranged the potential storm centers of the European continent and of the Far East.
• We could not create these potential forces that make for art.
• The sum of effects exists in the sum of causes in a potential form.
• Built into the structure of Roman civilization was the potential of civil war.
• The other is the rapidity with which masses of people all over the planet are being informed of the good-life potential implicit in present-day western affluence.
• Perhaps in the end the state will have to interfere in the business, to prevent the potential husband going to waste in the turmoil of opportunity.
• Thus, nature is an eternal circular process between the actual and the potential.
• Whether the battle of Poplar Grove is to be considered a success or not depends upon the view which is taken of its actual and potential results.
• It is impossible to ascertain with any degree of accuracy either the actual or the potential strength of the enemy at this period.
• I will now take a definite case, and compare the potential energy of a certain kind of fuel with the results actually obtained.

Similar words containing POTENTI without suffix al

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